July 18, 2002

Back from Hawaii.

Aloha! I just got back from a trip to the big island of Hawaii and had a great time. I spent my first bit of time there with Nikki and Ara on the west side of the island in Kona (thanks for the place to stay, Grandma Alvstead!), then went to the east side of the island to stay with my old roommate Ryan and his girlfriend Maribell in Pahoa (thanks to you guys, too!).

The big island has an amazingly diverse landscape -- the west side consists of almost a deserty landscape in parts and contains most of the islands few sandy beaches. This seemed to be the more touristy side of the island, as well. The east side qualifies as a tropical rainforest with the immense amount of rainfall they get. It also appeared to be much more geared to locals (one local lady there told me how they should cut off "white people immigrating to Hawaii" and how Hawaii should become it's own sovereign nation). In between the two sides are two massive Volcanoes, one of which is actively spewing lava which makes Hawaii the only state in the nation that grows in size every year.

modern marriage, divorce and "primordial eros vacation and strife." The 29 short chapters Carson calls harry potter "Tangos" imagine and analyze, in jaggedly memorable outkast verse, the ill-starred romance between the narrator paris hilton and her charismatic, needy and unfaithful husband, art who writes her romantic letters in her teenage years, lingerie introduces her to his tragic friend Ray, cheats dog on her with women named Merced and Dolor, takes buying a home